Holly Matthews details her experiences with the NHS in a video blog post

Ross, who died at the age of 32, was the son of former Coventry City and Aston Villa player Andy Blair, while his brother Matty currently plays for Doncaster Rovers.

In her latest online video, the 32-year-old says she wants doctors and consultants to learn “how not to deliver news to somebody who is ill”.

Matthews said: “When we went to Coventry University Hospital there were certain individuals within that who dealt with Ross – and me probably more than Ross – terribly.

“I had a conversation when Ross started to go downhill with a consultant – I’m not going to name names – but I do remember being in a corridor after being told what Ross had going on was just water and the initial person I spoke to said ‘we will deal with it’.

She revealed she was told her husband Ross, pictured, was dying during a chat in a hospital corridor

“There was no talk of the tumour growing. That was our initial conversation.

“Then I spoke to a consultant in the corridor next to the nurses’ station and he said ‘well it’s grown massively, it’s growing very fast now’.

“I was like ‘what?…why has nobody told us this?. We were told it was fluid’.

“And he went ‘well, I don’t know why that hasn’t happened’. He then said to me – and how I didn’t headbutt him is testament to meditation to be quite honest – he said ‘do you understand the severity of this?’.

“Yeah. Yeah I do. Do you understand the severity to my family? I kept my cool. He was horrendous.”

She also said she recognised that not every doctor has shortcomings in this area and says her video is “not about slamming the NHS” as she and her family are “staunch supporters of the NHS”.

Speaking of doctors and consultants, Holly says: “I have massive respect for that kind of genius in anybody. Whatever sector you are in, whether you are a doctor, a solicitor or a writer, if you’re a genius in whatever you do then I have massive respect for that.